[sage-devel] Deprecation policy

2011-01-01 Thread Simon King
Hi, and happy new year! I wonder under what conditions there should be a deprecation warning before removing a method: Can one do without a deprecation warning, if the method does not really provide an apparent functionality? Or would we argue: It is theoretically possible that some third-party

[sage-devel] deprecation policy

2009-11-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
Dear sage-devel, A while back we decided that we shouldn't just randomly break users' existing code even if the reason is very good (e.g. there are 20 names for the exact same thing, and 19 of them are just bad, or we want to change to a better convention for something). The idea was that